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Crime & Culpability: A Jane Austen Mystery Anthology by Regina Jeffers, Riana Everly, Jeanette Watts, Michael Rands, Linne Elizabeth, Emma Dalgety, and Elizabeth Gilliland
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About Crime & Culpability
Crime & Culpability: A Jane Austen Mystery Anthology
Cozy Mystery Anthology Settings - (Regency England, modern-day America)
Publisher : Bayou Wolf Press (September 10, 2024)
Print length : 176 pages Digital ASIN : B0D6JQN6JL
"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery." - Jane Austen, Persuasion
Jane Austen mysteries have become a popular subgenre of Austen variations, but this is more than just a trend. Austen was a masterful storyteller who embedded clues within her stories for her readers to follow, inviting readers to read between the lines and "gather the evidence" to follow her intricate plotlines.
In this anthology, various authors who are also fans and admirers of Austen's work have taken the challenge to add some mystery to Austen's stories and characters. From Regency sequels to film noir retellings to cozy art heists, Crime and Culpability: A Jane Austen Mystery Anthology explores the many faces of Austen and all of her enigmas.
Featuring stories by Regina Jeffers, Riana Everly, Jeanette Watts, Michael Rands, Linne Elizabeth, Emma Dalgety, and Elizabeth Gilliland, with a foreword by Regina Jeffers and an introduction by Elizabeth Gilliland Rands.
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About the Authors
Elizabeth Gilliland: Elizabeth Gilliland is the author of the Austen University Mysteries series, including What Happened on Box Hill, The Portraits of Pemberley, and two prequel novellas, Dear Prudent Elinor and Sly Jane Fairfax. (Look out for book three sometime next year!) She has written and presented at various academic confer‐ences on Jane Austen and wrote her dissertation on Jane Austen adaptations, dedicating herself to watch the lake dive scene as many times as necessary for scholarly pursuit. She also writes Gothic horror as E. Gilliland and romance as Lissa Sharpe, and she is the co-founder of Bayou Wolf Press.
Author Links Website:www.bayouwolfpress.com Twitter:https://twitter.com/egilliland Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= 100094046020056 Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/ 21986541.Elizabeth_Gilliland Blog:https://lissag7.medium.com/ Newsletter: Signup form athttps://www.bayouwolfpress.com/ Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09L HV8VKV?ingress=0&visitId=00a42e2f-c711-4615-a050- 9d2250f9f124&ref_=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1Website -https://www.bayouwolfpress.com/
Twitter - https://x.com/BayouWolf3
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Regina Jeffers - Regina Jeffers writes books about corsets, rakes, daring heroines, dashing heroes and all aspects of the Georgian/Regency era. She is an award winning author of cozy mysteries, historical romantic suspense, and Austenesque vagaries. Jeffers has been a Smithsonian presenter and Martha Holden Jennings Scholar, as well as having her tales honored by, among others, the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, the Frank Yerby Award for Fiction, the International Digital Awards, and the Chanticleer International Book Award.
Author Links: Every Woman Dreams (Blog)https://reginajeffers. wordpress.com Always Austen (Group Blog)https://alwaysausten.com/ Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/Regina-Jeffers-AuthorPage-141407102548455/?fref=ts Twitterhttps://twitter.com/reginajeffers Amazon Author Pagehttps://www.amazon.com/Regina-Jeffers/ e/B008G0UI0I/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1479079637&sr=8-1 Pinteresthttps://www.pinterest.com/jeffers0306/ BookBubhttps://www.bookbub.com/profile/regina-jeffers Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/darcy4ever/ You Tube Interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzgjdUigkkU Regina Jeffers Websitehttps://rjefferscom.wordpress.com/
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Riana Everly: Riana Everly is an award-winning Canadian author of Austenesque fiction, both Regency and contemporary. Her historical mystery series, Miss Mary Investigates, has quickly become a favourite of Jane Austen fans and cosy mystery fans alike. Trained as a classical musician, she also has advanced degrees in Medieval Studies, and pretended to be an academic before discovering that fiction doesn’t need footnotes. She loves travelling, cooking her way around the world, playing with photography, and discussing obscure details with her husband and children. Possibly in Latin. She can be found in the usual places and loves connecting with readers, so please give her a shout!
Author Links: Newsletter:https://form.jotform.com/80367829232259 Website:rianaeverly.com Facebook:facebook.com/RianaEverly Instagram:instagram.com/RianaEverly Amazon:amazon.com/Riana-Everly/e/B076C6HY27
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Jeanette Watts: Jeanette Watts is a dance instructor, writer, seamstress, actress, and very, very poor housekeeper. With books on historical fiction, modern romantic comedy, LGBTQ romance, Jane Austen-inspired stories, and she is contemplating writing steamier works, what do all these genres have in common? Jeanette writes about people with a secret. Secrets are fun. Keep up with the various parts of Jeanette's brain at her YouTube Channel, “History is My Playground,” and her webpages, Jeanette‐Watts.squarespace.com and DancingThruHistory.com.
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/jeanettewattsauthor/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/JeanetteWattsAuthor/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/JeanetteAWatts Linked In:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanette-watts3b212228/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UClz5LwyUEhPYhBS6piNpBqQ Website 1:https://jeanettewatts.squarespace.com/ Website 2:https://www.dancingthruhistory.com/ Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6967936. Jeanette_Watts Amazon Author Page:https://www.amazon.com/stores/ Jeanette-A-Watts/author/B00ICRA7JC?ref=ap_rdr&isDramInte grated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
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Michael Rands: Michael Rands is the author of the novels The Chapel St. Perilous and Praise Routine Number Four, co-author of the economic satire The Yamaguchi Manuscripts, and Kamikaze Economics (a story of modern Japan). He’s co-author of the humorous dictionary Stay Away from Mthatha. He co-created the audio drama The Crystal Set and co- hosted the podcast Detours Ahead. In South Africa he worked in television as a writer, director and producer. He taught English in Japan. He holds an MFA from Louisiana State University, and currently teaches English and Creative Writing at the college level. He is the co-founder of Bayou Wolf Press. He lives with his wife, son, and labrador, in Alabama. His new novel, When the Witch Calls, comes out in November 2024.
Author Links Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/michael.rands.14 Twitter:https://twitter.com/mikerands Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/michaelrands/?hl=en Blog:https://medium.com/@notmikerands
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Linné Elizabeth: Linné Elizabeth is an English instructor at Utah Tech University, a freelance content writer, and an award-winning author. When she's not devouring chocolate while nose-deep in a book, you can find her playing in the russet desert of southern Utah with her four incredible - sometimes feral - kids and her handsome husband. Check her out on Instagram: @library4one or on Facebook: @linneelizabeth
Author Links Website:https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/ linnemarshportfolio/home Instagram:@Library4One LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ linneelizabethmarsh/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/LinneElizabeth Blog:https://wordpress.com/view/linneelizabeth.wordpress.com Emma Dalgety: Emma Dalgety grew up in Mobile, Alabama. She received a BA in Music and English from the University of Mobile in 2023. As a musi‐cian and a writer, she has performed violin across the Southeast and internationally, finding creative inspiration and filling notebooks with story fragments throughout her travels. When she isn't writing, she is researching interdisciplinary connections in literature as she works towards an MA in English, or teaching music lessons in her private studio.
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Hello everyone,
For those who don’t know me, I’m Riana Everly, and I write historical romance,
contemporary romance, and historical mysteries. I’m so thrilled to have my
short story included in this great collection, Crime & Culpability, and I’d
love to tell you a bit about myself and my story.
I have to blame my love of mystery on my mother, who handed me a Secret Seven book by Enid Blyton when I was just starting to read. Those stories about seven children and their investigations hooked me almost from the first page, and well, I’m an addict with no intention of getting help!
Once we moved to Canada and British children’s fiction was a bit harder to get, I moved on to Nancy Drew, and then to Agatha Christie. I loved matching my wits with Hercule Poirot and seeing if I could spot those elusive clues that pointed to the culprit before the little Belgian detective made his pronouncement. I devoured the classics (Ngaio Marsh is my favourite of that elite cadre of mystery authors, with her swoony Detective Alleyn), and raided the library shelves in search of whatever was new that week. PD James, Sara Paretsky, Caroline Graham, Alexander McCall Smith, and so many other brilliant authors… I couldn’t get enough.
My favourites, of course, were the ones that let the reader in on all the clues, even if we didn’t know it, letting us solve the mystery along with the literary detectives. Those that concealed the big surprise until the very end, I thought, were not quite fair, and a little voice inside me said, “you can do better.”
But I silenced that voice. I couldn’t write a mystery. No way.
Or could I? There was only one way to find out.
It was a long time before I was brave enough to put pen to paper for a whodunnit, but I had a lot of inspiration in the unlikely form of Jane Austen.
Yes, that Jane Austen, she of the muddy petticoats and grumpy-but-rich gentlemen. Also, creator of one of my favourite overlooked characters, Mary Bennet.
In Pride and Prejudice, Mary is the neglected middle sister, the one who isn’t gorgeous and witty like her older sisters, or bubbly and flirty like the younger two. She’s serious and studious, preferring Scarlatti to scandals, and totally ignored by everyone. Also, from how I read her, desperate for attention.
But if no one pays any attention to Mary, she must see all sorts of things no one thinks about. And when a problem arises, perhaps some of what she’s seen can lead to a solution. And all that reading and pontificating might give her the intellectual edge and the confidence to say what she knows.
Of course, Mary can’t do this alone. She’s just a middling country gentleman’s middle child, an imperfectly educated teenager with no connections and no authority. And so, enter one of my favourite characters, a young London investigator named Alexander Lyons, who listens to Mary, possibly for the first time in her life. Together, they’re a terrific mystery-solving duo, and I’ve loved writing about their adventures.
You can read more about Mary and Alexander in my growing Miss Mary Investigates series, as they solve mysteries through Jane Austen’s brilliant novels.
In my contribution to Crime & Culpability, Mary and Alexander are together once more. It’s supposed to be a pleasant diversion, an afternoon at the races, but when disaster strikes and one of Mr Darcy’s friends finds himself in a great deal of trouble, these two sleuths just might have what it takes to save the day before the last horse crosses the finish line. What happens? You’ll have to read “Death at the Races” to find out. I hope you enjoy it, as well as the other delightful mysteries in this fabulous collection. Happy reading.
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Thank you for letting us in your writing, Riana. I enjoy reading mysteries too when I was young with the likes of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys. I dreamed of becoming a detective and solve crimes.
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